The solvency ratios of insurers have become very fragile. The insurance sector is not globally regulated, a major natural disaster, a series of bank failures or nationalizations would set off the failure of insurers, which would be even less tolerable than that of the banks.
The editor-in-chief of Wired, Chris Anderson, asserts that with the internet, a new kind of non-paying model has developed that favors the economy of one’s own personal knowledge
To get through the current crisis, nations – like businesses – will have to completely recalibrate their organization.
In a study directed by the economist Jonathan Murdoch, to be published in April 2009, a very concrete, in-depth vision of the world’s poorest workers emerges
Twitter permits the development of many different free applications which allow, for instance, automatic translation of messages from another language and the sending photos, videos, or music. And it’s a success: it is the same community growing the fastest on the internet.
It is very difficult, for the majority of us, to admit that we are now in the process of changing the world. And even those who say they recognize it are only asking, “How long will the crisis last?” As if the post-crisis world could be a return to the former order.
Les baisses des prix et des nationalisations les favoriseront aux dépens des travailleurs et actionnaires
Among the numerous obstacles still hidden in the crisis, there lies one of tremendous amplitude, still carefully concealed despite its imminence: in a few weeks, the banks will announce their results for 2008; they will then have to recognize that their capital stocks.
Une longue période sans élections s’ouvre. Profitons-en sans attendre l’aggravation de la crise économique de l’Occident.
